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Husband: HOHENFELD, Otto Von, born about 1245, in Of St. Georgen, Attergau, Oberoesterreich, Austria, death about 1320, in the same city, married with ECKER, Catharina, born about 1249, Of St. Georgen, Attergau, Oberoesterreich, Austria.

Children: none

Husband: MAYR, Leopold, born about 1534, Of St. Georgen, Attergau, Oberoesterreich, Austria??

Died: before 1532 in the same city. Married with HECHER, Eva, born about 1538, Of St. Georgen, Attergau, Oberoesterreich, Austria?? Died: before 1534, in the same city.

Children: MAYR, Ursula, born about 1579 in , Of St. Georgen, Attergau, Oberoesterreich, Austria??

Husband: HECHER, Paul, born about 1563, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria, and died March 20, 1625, married about 1589 , in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria with SEITRAINER, Ursula, born about 1567, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria. Father: SEITRAINER, Martin and mother WEGER, Chistina.

Children: HECHER, Andre, born about 1589, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria, and died December 28, 1642, in the same city.

Husband: HECHER, Andre, born about 1589, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria. Died Dec 28, 1642, in the same city. Fathers: Hecher, Paul and Seitrainer, Ursula. Maried about 1624, with KENDLER, Regina, born about 1600, in Oberhelmber, Austria. Father´s of KENDLER, Regina: Kendler, Johann, and GOEGL, Margaretha.

Children: HECHER, Gertrud, aborn March 19, 1624 in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria. Died Sep 22, 1704, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria.

Husband: MAERSCHLSCHWAIG, Sebastian, born Jan 19, 1626 in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria, and died in Dec 6, 1688 in the same city: Father´s: MAERSCHLSCHWAIG, Michael and HOCHLEITNER, Anna. Married with HECHER, Gertrud in Jun 2, 1653, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria.

Children: MAERSCHLSCHWAIG, Christian, born Nov 20, 1662, in St. Johann, St. Johann, Austria, and died Aug 18, 1727 in the same city.

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The name Eccher, is derived from the feminine ECKE, and signifies an angle, a corner or a side. It also indicates that they lived on the side of a hill or mountain. The name was introduced in Tregiovo, in 1535, when two families from Lauregno came together. The family tree goes back to the 1400's in what is now northern Italy. Prior to WWI, the area was part of Austria. People at that time were Austrian, but spoke Italian. The surname Eccher is pronounced ECKER. It has spelling variations. It start on Germany is ECKARDT, or ECKHARDT. Then soon after it arrives in America it was ECKER, ECKERT, EGGER, basically it’s all the same.

1) Yours, with the gesture of cutting through oak would seen to correspond to the meaning of ECKHARDT, as 'Hard Edge'.

2) Many years ago, I found an ECKHARDT crest in a very old book. It has a shield decorated with an ax and a plow. This would correspond to another of the several meanings of ECKHARDT, i.e. 'edge of forest'. Those farming on the edge of the forest would need an ax and a plow.

3) However, I also seen another version with three angels (they look like carpenters tools) and nothing else. This might also correspond to 'hard edge'.

It has spelling variations, but even there as you trace back all the variations show up within the same family lineage:

José Hecher (Giuseppe Eccher) (Joseph Ecker) (Jose Echer) (Giuseppe Ecker) Jose Hecher was born in 1873. He arrived at the Rio Grande do Sul County (Brazil) in 1881, with about 8 (eight) years of age, and alone, in the Zone of Immigration, as story of it exactly, to the son Hilário Hecher, only son who remained with it until the death. He is difficult to believe, that a child, alone has crossed the Atlantic. A couple of Italians, in distant and unknown lands was joined as ' cola`. It spoke of Italy and Austria, but if he dealt with the Trento Alto-Ádige, that at the time was occupied by Austria. The boy was adopted by a German couple of immigrants, and is the question: Because German and not Italian? He will be that it knew the language German, therefore lived in the Trento? Much Hechers had come to Brazil of this region. This part of the narrative is misty and obscure, and, exactly after decades of research, it did not obtain many results. The boy of bruacas, on donkeys, inside together with this couple (I did not obtain to discover if he had children), followed for Good Garden (currently Ivoti), at the time Third District of Is Leopoldo. In Good Garden, it the German language learned with its ' father`, or perfected the same, and the art of as to manufacture hampers and the most diverse types of products using wicker. In 1891, during the landmark of lands, for the Italian Colonists, ' father` of it said Jose: 'It comes with me, we go to delineate all the Travessões and Léguas, and in the end of the work I obtain a lot for José. In 1893, then called Ecker Giuseppe, it gained a lot, number 23, in 12ª Légua, Trav. Gavioli, in the abrupt declivities of the River São Marcos, with 92.125m2, where it was to live alone. This Travessão had 23 lots, all with 302.500m2, less of nr. 23. All the others 22 lots had been deliver the Italian immigrants, and then an interrogation fits: If it only said German, as communicated itself with its neighbors? Or Jose said Italian, also, with 8 years. In 1893, he was married Rosa Queccozzo (Queccasso) Tagliaferro, and in the following year, 1894, already he is born the first son, João Guerino Hecher; in 1895 Nicola Hecher is born. This couple had 11 children. In the beginning it planted to survive. For return of 1900, Jose sold its lot in the Trav. Gavioli, and purchase another one in the Trav. Cavour, 11ª Légua, close to New Trento (Flowers of the Wedge). The Hechers was nicknamed Tedeschi, because they manufactured baskets. In the Cavour, with fertile lands, many streams and riozinhos, Jose started to plant wicker. In the sell beginning for the neighbors, and in New Trento, but the market was small for all production. Wicker grew in abundance, and all the children worked in this profession. Jose constituted a called company Jose Echer & Filhos. The production increased and had had that to look new markets. They loaded some freighters, and they followed for Guimarães Port (Sebastião do Caí), and later to Porto Alegre, where they sell in the Public Market, returning with sufficient order, because nobody manufactured hampers wicker, and the most varied products in wicker. Jose Hecher deceased in 07.02.1939, with 66 years, leaving an extensive and huge descendents.

On May 11, 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, disembarked in the bustling harbor of New York City. He had crossed the ocean to try to understand the implications for European civilization of the new experimented in democracy on the far east of the Atlantic.

In the next nine months, Tocqueville and his friend Gustavo de Beaumont traveled the length and breadth of the eastern half of the continent - from Boston to Green Bay and from New Orleans to Quebec - in search of the essence of American Life.

Tocqueville was fascinated by what he saw. He marveled at the energy of the people who were building the new nation. He admired many of the new political institutions and ideals. And he was impressed most of all by the spirit of equality that pervaded the life and customs of the people. Through he had reservations about some of the expressions of this spirit, he could discern its workings in every aspect of American society - in the politics, business, personal relations, culture, thought. This commitment to equality was in striking contrast to the class-ridden society of Europe. Yet Tocqueville believed 'the democratic revolution', to be irresistible.

'Balanced between the past and the future', as he wrote of himself, 'with no natural instinctive attraction toward either, I could without effort quietly contemplate each side of the question'. On his return to France, Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy In America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight. And, in discussing the successive waves of immigration from England, France, Spain and other European Countries, Tocqueville identified a central factor in the American democratic faith:

All the European colonies contained the elements, if not the development, of a complete democracy. Two causes led this result. It may be said that on leaving the mother country the immigrants had, in general, no notion of superiority one over another. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."" To show the power of the equalitarian spirit of America, Tocqueville added: “It happened, however, on several occasions, that persons of rank were driven to America by political and religious quarrels. Laws were made o establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territprial aristocracy”

What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: A nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action. Since, 1607, when the first English settlers reached the New World, over 42 million people have migrated to the United States.

This represents the largest migration of people in all recorded history. It is two and a half times the total number f people now living in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nevada New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island,, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming.

Another way of indicating the importance of immigration to America is to point out that every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants.

The exception? Will Rogers, part Cherokee Indian, said that his ancestors were at the dock to met the ‘Mayflower’. And some anthropologists believe that the Indians themselves were immigrants from another continent who displaced the original Americans – the aborigines.

In just over 350 years, a nation of nearly 200 million people has grown up, populated almost entirely by persons who either came from other lands or whose forefathers came from other lands. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded a convention of the Daughters of the American revolution, “Remember , remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Any great social movement leaves its mark, and the massive emigration of peoples to the New World was no exception to this rule. The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century. There is no part of our nation that has not been touched by our immigrant background. Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American Life.

The crossing immediately subjected the immigrant to a succession of shattering shocks and decisively conditioned the life of every man that survived it. This was the initial contact with life as it was to be. For many peasants it was the first time away from home, away from the safety of the circumscribed little villages in which they had passed all their years. Now they would learn to have dealings with people essentially different from themselves. Now they would collide with unaccustomed problems, learn to understand alien ways and alien languages, manage to survive in a grossly foreign environment. Initially, they had to save money for passage. Then they had to say good-bye to cherished relatives and friends, whom they could expect never to see again. They started their journey by traveling from their villages to the ports of embarkation. Some walked; the luckier trundled their few possessions into carts which they sold before boarding ship. Some paused along the road to work in the fields in order to eat. Before they even reached the ports of embarkation, they were subject to illness, accidents, storm and snow, even the attacks by outlaws.

After arriving at the ports, they often had to wait days, weeks, sometimes months, while they bargained with captains or agents for passage. Meanwhile, they crowded into cheap lodging houses near the quays, sleeping on straw in small, dark rooms, sometimes as many as forty in a room twelve by fifteen feet.

Until the middle of the nineteenth century the immigrants traveled in sailing vessels. The average trip from Liverpool to New York took forty days; but any estimate of time was hazardous, for the ship was subject to winds, tides, primitive navigation, unskilled seamanship and the whim of the captain. A good size for the tiny craft of those days was three hundred tons, and each one was crowded with anywhere from four hundred to a thousand passengers.

For the immigrants, their shipboard world was the steerage that confined space below deck, usually about seventy-five feet long and twenty-five feet wide. In many vessels no one over five and a half feet tall could stand upright. Here they lived there days and nights, receiving their daily ration of vinegar-flavored water and trying to eke out sustenance from whatever provisions they have bought along. When their food ran out, they were often at the mercy of extortionate captains.

They huddled in their hard, cramped bunks, freezing when the hatches were open, stifling when they were closed. The only light came from a dim, swaying lantern. Night and day were indistinguishable. But they were ever aware of the treacherous winds and waves, the scampering pf rats and the splash of burials. Diseases – cholera, yellow fever, smallpox and dysentery – took their toll. One in ten failed to survive the crossing. Eventually the journey came to an end. The travelers saw the coast of America with mixed feelings of relief, excitement, trepidation and anxiety. For now, uprooted from old patterns of life, they found themselves, in Handlin’s phases, “in a prolonged state of crisis – crisis in the sense that they were, and remained unsettled.” They reached the new land exhausted by lack of rest, bad food, confinement and the strain of adjustment to new conditions. But they could not pause to recover their strength. They had no reserves of food or money; they had to keep moving until they found work. This meant new strains at a time when their capacity to cope with new problems had already been overburdened.

There were probably as many reasons to coming to America as there who people that came. It was a highly individual decision. Yet can be said that three large forces - religious persecution, political oppression and economic hardship – provided the chief motives for the mass migrations to our shores. They were responding, in they own way, to the pledge of the Declaration of Independence: the promise of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

MARITIE ECKER KRANCKHEYT (Martitie Kranckheyt) Abrane, Abraham de ryRyck Van Lent, (Jacon Deryck, Jacob Simons Melchoir, was b. 1672 in Arme Bouwerie, Queens Co, New York Province, and died unknown in Philipsburh, Westchester Co, New York Province. She married WOLFERT ECKER aft. 12 Dec 1692, in Frederick Philipse Manor, Philipsburgh, Westchester Co, New York Province, son of STEVEN ECKKER and (female) Snedecker. She was born abt. 1668 in Flatbush (Midwout, ( Kings Co.), New York Province, and died 1753 in Philipsburgh, Westchester Co, New York Province.

DESCENDANTS OF CHRISTOPHER ECKER

CHRISTOPHER ECKER (Andreas) was born Aug 31, 1718, in Wachendorf, Mittelfranken, Bayern, Germany, and died Feb 26, 1747/48, in East Coventry Township., Chester County, Pottstown, PA., United States. He married Elizabeth Stager, abt. 1742, daughter of Jacob Stager. She was born Jan 01, 1721/1722, in Germany, and died Mar 06, 1777, en East Vincent, Chester, PA, USA.

2) John Ecker, born Jun 07, 1747, in Chester County, PA.; and died Oct 13, 1821, in Unionville, Frederick County, MD, USA.

1.1. JACOB ECKER (Christopher, Andreas) was born abt. 1744, in PA, and died 1818, in Coventry Twp., Chester County, PA. He married Mary Krey. She was born 1745. He married. Also he married Mary Halderman unknown. She was born 1753, and died unknown.

6) Catherine Ecker, born unknown; died unknown. She married Abraham Freed unknown; died unknown.

7) David Ecker, born unknown; died unknown.

8) Elizabeth Ecker, born unknown; died unknown. Che married Samue Sowder; born unknown; died unknown.

9) Henry Ecker, born unknown.

10) Joseph Ecker, born unknown; died unknown.

1.2 JOHN ECKER (Christopher, Andreas), was born Jun 07, 1747, in Chester County, PA, and died Oct 13, 1821 in Unionville, Frederick County, MD, USA. He married Elizabeth Engel on Sep 08, 1769, in Chester County, PA, USA, daughter of Casper Engel and Elizabeth Crumbacker. She was born Jul 08, 1753, in Chester County, PA, and died Sep 08, 1811, in Frederick County, MD, USA.

Friday, December 12, 2008Lorenz Egger, this had to be the original name of that person that in 1810 from Lauregno it brings him to Taio to marry Marianna Aizbolcher widow of the innkeeper Gaetano Taller. Lorenzo been born in 1778 by Vito and Maria Vallortschin, will place side by side his wife working in the inn. From the marriage two children will be born: Vito ca.1811 and Maria in 1813 that however they will prematurely die, as their mother that in 1826 she will leave widower Lorenzo. This him remarried with Ann Farnevisen or Trottner that it dies of birth October 27 th 1831, giving Felice to the light. In 1830 he had been born to Taio the first-born Andrea, after that Lorenzo and Anna moved to Dermulo, where they lived in lease in the house n. 26 or 27 (that of the "Rodari"). Lorenzo in 1833 him remmaried with Gioseffa Rosati of Smarano, and other three children will be born: Fillippo (n.1833), Lorenzo (n.1836) and Augusta (n.1839). Toward the 1840 Lorenzo, that meanwhile it developed the profession of butcher, it will purchase from the Conti Thun the house n. 7, where for many years his children will live with the relative families. Andrea and Felice will also acquire (for the area of 10 Ps every) a part of house n. 8 belonged to the family Endriocher. Here it will see the light in the 1892 Celestino Eccher.

a) Andrea gets married in the 1854 Teresa Stancher of Tavon, from the marriage six children will be born, among which Eugenio (n.1861) and Fortunato (n.1866) that they will leave a notable descent to Dermulo. Andrea in the first years of marriage lives lease in the house n. 27, then already in 1874 he lives in the house n. 23, (in the part to East) presumably purchased by Caterina Danieli of Taio. (V. It edges n. 18).

a.a.) Eugenio gets married in the 1888 Irene Tame daughter of Giovanni, two them children (Andrea and Lorenzo) they will choose the ecclesiastical street, others two: Candido (n.1899) and Paolo (n.1903) they will get married him and they will leave Dermulo; another named Abramo (n.1893) gotten married with Viola Bott will emigrate for one period in America, then it will return to Dermulo for then to definitely move himself to Malgolo, country of his wife. To Dermulo today the descendants of Riccardo live, second-born of Eugene.

a.b.) Fortunato of profession blacksmith, bride in the 1897 Maria Inama Giuseppe's daughter. Of the three male children been born by the marriage alone Luigi (n.1903) also him blacksmith, will have descent; the first-born Giuseppe (n.1895) of profession upholsterer will die in 1918 in war, Francesco (n.1907) he will enter convent instead with the name of father Egidio.

b) Felice gets married in the 1863 Monica Inama daughter of Giacomo, from the marriage five children will be born, among which Enrico (n.1864) and Francesco (n.1869). The first one will marry Caterina Emer daughter of Pietro, the second Rosa Emer daughter of Giovanni. (V. It edges n. 19)

b.a.) Enrico in 1910 will leave the fatherly house to go to live in his new house "to the Braide." Among the nine children of Enrico we remember Monsignor Celestino (n.1892) famous and appreciated musician and composer of Sacred music; Gemma (n.1896) reaches single woman the old one hundred year-old age and Giustino (n. 1905) that it will be the only one to have still living descent in country.

b.b.) Francesco had two children: Narciso (n. 1904) that he will emigrate in Argentina and Gisella been born in 1905 and dead single woman in 1961.

c) Fillippo will marry Luigia Brentari and from the marriage four children will be born: Austano (n.1865) that he will emigrate in America without giving more news, Gioseffa (n.1867) that he/she will marry Giovanni Tamè son of Giovanni Maria, Luigi (n.1871) says "Tochèl" that it will die single in 1955 and Maria (n.1877) that in the 1905 bride Celestino Capello of Cles.

d) Lorenzo Junior around in 1880 he will leave Dermulo with the whole family and he is not known if has emigrated in America or in some other place.

e) Augusta married in the 1870 Fillippo Inama son of Giacomo Antonio.

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